[nagdu] Scratching my head

[Tami Jarvis]

Yikes! I'm scurrying too much to check the law again, but I'm pretty 
sure I remember that it rules out guard/protection dogs from the service 
dog category... If I'm wrong, I hope to be corrected. /smile/

Also, the requirement of the handler to have a disability is a deal 
breaker for a healthy exec who just wants a tough dog to protect him.

I agree with you that an added layer of confusion about those legal 
definitions is the last thing any of us need. If I had a dime for every 
minute I've spent trying to un-miseducate folks about what a SD is or 
isn't and what comfort dog is or isn't and so on, I'd be out spending 
all that money right now! /lol/

In terms of pure feeling about it, I'm not altogether comfortable with 
having trained attack dogs on the same bus with me and my guide. True, 
the dog may be very well trained in obedience and only attacking on 
command and so on. However, just as with guide dogs who are trained to 
never attack at all, no matter what, the handler who takes over from the 
trainer may or may not be on top of these things. /shudder/

Or am I just having a paranoid day there? Like I say, it's just what my 
gut says. No facts or stats or anything informational behind that 
feeling. /smile/

Tami

On 12/07/2012 12:26 PM, Mark J. Cadigan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
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> I herd of someone who has an "executive protection dog" read attack dog,
> that he claims is a service dog. This can't be legal, can it? The man
> has no disabilities, however, his dog has a "service dog" vest, and is
> trained to do a couple service dog tasks like pick up dropped items, and
> leash guyed.
>
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>
> Check out this website, this seems to be very misleading, and
> potentially hazardous to our access rights.
> http://www.cqbk9.com/personalprotectiondogs/service-dogs
>
>
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